Food For Thought

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  22nd September 2008

  A London institution!

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  As one of the other reviewers has noted, Food for Thought is a London institution! From the outside it is a tiny restaurant in Neal Street, but the whole basement is in use. Traditionally, you queue upstairs to take food away, and queue down the stairs (and the queue at lunchtimes always reaches down the length of the stairs and along the street) to eat at the benches or on cushions downstairs.
  
  This is a vegetarian’s paradise (they serve only veggie food), but is also a delicious experience for meat eaters. Every day there are 2 or 3 different soups, 3 main meals, and a salad, plus 2 or 3 scrummy desserts. The menu changes each day. You can have anything you like for less than £5, but plan to spend more if it is your first visit, go when you are hungry and try a dessert as well!
  
  
  

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  hellyphant

  5th September 2008

  Tasty, healthy vegetarian food at Food for Thought

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  Food for Thought is a small vegetarian cafe on Neal street in Covent Garden, and my favourite lunch-time haunt. It's incredibely popular with local office and shop workers and has many regulars.
  
  On ground level there is a take away counter, behind which you can see staff cooking up fresh pots of lentil curries and spinnach soup and all other kinds of healthy dishes. Every day they serve a mixed salad which I would totally recommend - it normally comes with couscous, pasta, or potatoes so is quite filling. Fresh homemade bread is also available and is often still warm, tasting like it's just come out of the oven.
  
  Prices are good value, especially for central london. A mixed salad and large chunk of fresh bread costs about £3.70.
  
  Downstairs there are tables where you can eat in, although I never have myself. It always looks very crowded and claustrophic.
  
  Also, bear in mind that queues can be long during the lunch hour - often spreading some way down Neal street, so it's best not to go there if you're in a rush. It's alot quieter before 12.30 or after 2pm.
  
  I'm very glad I disvoered Food for Thought. It offers a tasty, healthy alternative to the monotony of yet another lunchtime sandwich.

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  bee_girl

  28th August 2008

  Yummy

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  A Vegetarian restaurant in a great spot in Covent Garden. For vegetarians or non vegetarians alike, I think it’s top quality food at very reasonable prices, something you don’t get very often. It also puts to bed all stereotypes about vegetarian food that may exist. However, if you want a long chat with friends with a long side down meal, save for another day. It can get very crowded and hard to get a place. Tables are canteen like and as food is serve yourself it can be a very quick process….deserts are also brilliant though so stay for that!

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  horseradish

  25th March 2007

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  Big grey queues in the big grey rain, big grey plates, big grey food, but about as close to the original Cranks vibe as you'll get.

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  poolside

  25th March 2007

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  food = great and very healthy but ALWAYS go take-out :o)

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  Frankie

  25th March 2007

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  Yes I've been there - and it's been there too, for as long as I can remember. It must have been there since hippies discovered an old dilapidated yard around the corner and set up co-operatives there... I think Neals Yard Bakery still is a co-op?
  
  I reckon it's a pretty good platter for the money. It's a bit like a canteen. You queue at the counter and a big ladel swoops down over your bowl and you get dolloped. About 4 servers work together in an area the size of a washing up bowl - you've got to be impressed, watching them juggle plates and cutlery in perfect harmony.
  

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  tristan

  23rd March 2007

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  I do like the food here. It's healthy, tasty and with good portions. It's just it's the worst place to sit as it's usually very crowded. Get the take away.

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  brypoy

  9th January 2007

  veggielicious

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  hearty veggie food, generous portions of roasted butternut squash, lentils, salads, quiche, soup, all homemade...cosy atmosphere, with little space to eat in meaning you share tables, talk and eat with complete strangers - a rareity in central london!! Best enjoyed away from the lunchtime rush.

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  sazzle

  18th October 2006

  Your daily 5, and then some!

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  This place is no secret to anyone who works around Covent Garden, which is a shame because it means you always always have to wait if you want to eat in. The concept is simple: a few good quality interesting vegetarian dishes are available each day, all cooked fresh on the premises. The result is delicious. Everytime I go there I think of the hippie earth mother I never had. Go on a rainy day, order some yummy goodness (like morroccan tagine, thai stir fry, roasted vegetable bake, lasagne... soup soup soup), pay your dosh (usually under a fiver) find a spot and relish the warm feeling from knowing that what you're eating is not only very tasty, it's also very healthy. Finish up with some banana strawberry scrumple or whatever they call it. But don't go on Friday lunch time or I will get annoyed with you for taking up a table I could be sitting on!

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  Food For Thought

  31 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PR uk
  

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  walid

  5th September 2006

  Veggie Place

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  Whilst I'm not a vegetarian, I do enjoy going to Food For Thought from time to time. Their meals are always very tasty and filling but don't quite represent value for money. The staff in general is quite friendly. On the down side it is quite hard to get a seat and the seats are not very comfortable if you are 1.82m tall as I am.

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